On the heels of a strong hint about a new gun control initiative effort in Washington Wednesday, gun prohibitionists in neighboring Oregon are launching a campaign to ban so-called “assault weapons,” according to Willamette Week. Called the “The Interfaith and People of Goodwill Campaign to Ban Assault Weapons,” the effort is already attracting attention beyond […]

Friday’s wrap of the 2018 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show coincides with more gun control back at the state level, with at least two bump stock ban measures making headway at far ends of the country. There is much irony in this because prior to Oct. 1, 2017, very few people outside the […]

The Hill is reporting that gun control proponents see 2018 as a year in which they “can notch new wins in state legislatures across the country.” Already, Massachusetts and New Jersey have banned “bump stock” devices, the newspaper noted, and bans have been approved by legislative committees in Indiana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia and Washington. […]

Proponents of splitting the State of California into two separate entities – California and New California – have declared independence, contending that the Golden State as it now exists is “ungovernable.” According to USA Today, the state would be divided between rural and urban coastal California counties. It is the latter area, and the smaller, […]

When Seattle’s KIRO, the local CBS affiliate, asked whether bump stocks should be banned, an online — and unscientific — poll showed a majority of respondents have said “No” by a wide margin. According to the poll results Tuesday evening, 64 percent of poll participants oppose the idea of banning the controversial accessory, while only […]

Updated: So-called “Comprehensive Background Check” (CBC) laws passed in Washington and Colorado have had little effect, and that may be because “citizens simply decided not to comply and there was a lack of enforcement,” according to a story in The Guardian. The report appears in Injury Prevention, a medical journal. A third state, Delaware, did […]